U+10854 "𐡔" Imperial Aramaic Letter Shin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐡔
U+10854 "𐡔" Imperial Aramaic Letter Shin is a glyph from the Imperial Aramaic script, an ancient Semitic writing system used primarily by the Achaemenid Persian Empire between roughly the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE. This particular character represents the letter "Shin," which corresponds to the sound "sh" as in "shin" or "ship," and it derives from an earlier Phoenician letter. It was employed in official inscriptions, administrative documents, and religious texts across a vast geographic area spanning from Egypt to India. Today, the character is part of the Unicode Standard's Imperial Aramaic block, enabling digital preservation and modern study of this historically significant script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10854 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Imperial Aramaic Letter Shin |
| Block | Imperial Aramaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010854 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc54 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Imperial Aramaic |
| Script Extensions | Imperial Aramaic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |